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Her Life in Ink, a brand new biography by Sharon Harris about Elizabeth Garver Jordan, provides a good reason to plunder our podcast vault this week to revisit an episode about this star journalist, editor and mystery author. Jordan’s riveting coverage of the Lizzie Borden trial for The New York World captivated true-crime junkies of the late 19th-century, and her lengthy career as a journalist, fiction writer and literary editor still resonates today. Lori Harrison-Kahan and Jane Carr, editors of a brand new collection of Garver Jordan’s work, join us to discuss her courtroom dispatches, her connection to today’s #MeToo movement and how her “invisible labor” shaped the writing of literary giants like Sinclair Lewis and Henry James. 
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ASU/FIDM screening of Virginia Faulkner's "Bridal Suite" followed by a Q&A with Brad Bigelow
Her Life in Ink: Elizabeth Jordan, Journalist, Editor and Mystery Author by Sharon Harris 
The Case of Lizzie Borden & Other Writings by Jane Carr and Lori Harrison-Kahan
Elizabeth Garver Jordan’s work:
The Sturdy Oak
The Whole Family 
The Lady of Pentlands
Three Rousing Cheers
“Ruth Herrick’s Assignment”
“The Cry of the Pack”
The Superwoman and Other Writings by Miriam Michelson
Heirs of Yesterday by Emma Wolf
The New York World
Nellie Bly
The Lizzie Borden case
The Lizzie Borden house in Fall River, Mass.
Harper’s Bazaar
Harper and Brothers

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“Queen of the Dunes” Hazel Hawthorne was a Cape Cod legend who wrote about The Road nearly two decades before her one-time tenant, Jack Kerouac. A uniquely feminine precursor to Beat literature, her novel Salt House captures Bohemian life amid the sand dunes of Provincetown. Though largely dismissed upon its 1934 publication, the book has been re-plucked from obscurity thanks to a new reissue by Provincetown Arts Press. Guests Allison Bass-Riccio and Livia Tenzer join us to discuss the almost transcendental effect Hawthorne’s life and writing has on those who continue to discover her.
Mentioned in this episode:
Salt House by Hazel Hawthorne
Provincetown Arts
Tour the Dunes of Provincetown
Peaked Hill Trust Writing Residency
Three Women by Hazel Hawthorne
Edmund Wilson
Mary Heaton Vorse
Eugene O’Neill
The Provincetown Players
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Finding Hazel Hawthorne podcast by Inka Leisma
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 150 on Elizabeth Smart

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In this encore presentation, Kim and Amy take stock by dusting off a "New Year’s" episode from 1921, sharing secrets of what makes their writing partnership work and turning to famous women writers — including Nancy Mitford, Isabelle Allende, Anais Nin and more for advice on setting (and more importantly, accomplishing) one's goals.

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Virginia Faulkner had no family ties to that other famous Faulkner, but she is connected to another icon of classic American literature. A young flapper who made an authorial splash with the New York literati (earning comparisons to a young Dorothy Parker), Faulkner later switched gears, devoting the second half of her life to shaping The University of Nebraska Press into a powerhouse publishing institution. Her dedication to scholarship on Willa Cather helped solidify Cather in the pantheon of great American writers. We’re joined for this discussion by neglected books champion Brad Bigelow, whose biography Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts was recently published by Bison Press.
Mentioned in this episode:
Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts by Brad Bigelow
2026 Pilgrimage Reading Group
Purchase the Pilgrimage Series by Dorothy Richardson
Neglected Books website
Friends and Romans by Virginia Faulkner
Willa Cather
A House is Not a Home by Polly Adler
University of Nebraska Press
My Hey Day (The “Princess Tulip” Stories) by Virginia Faulkner
Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott
Eugene Meyer
Bernice Slote
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 59 on Gertrude Trevelyon
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 116 on Dorothy Richardson
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Before penning the lyrics to “America the Beautiful,” Katharine Lee Bates shone a spotlight on the invisible (and not so invisible) labor tackled by an unsung Christmas heroine, Mrs. Claus. Bates’s 1888 poem “Goody Claus on a Sleigh Ride” imagines Santa’s spouse setting the record straight about who really does most of the work in preparation for Christmas. In this holiday episode, Amy confesses her own cynical feelings about the Yuletide season and reads this humorous poem with its surprisingly satirical and feminist bent. Listeners who tune in will also receive a special “Lost Ladies of Lit” holiday freebie!
Mentioned in this episode:
“Goody Claus on a Sleigh Ride” by Katharine Lee Bates
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 237 on Katharine Lee Bates

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